Afghanistan, March 11 -- February ranked among the bloodiest months in Pakistan's recent history, not because of any foreign aggressor, but because the country's own security apparatus failed, repeatedly and at scale, to protect the people it claims to serve. A suicide bombing struck a Shia mosque in Islamabad on February 6, killing 36 worshippers and wounding more than 170. This was followed by a terror attack in Bajaur that killed 11 soldiers, and further bombings in the Bannu area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. These were not isolated incidents but part of a continuing pattern of catastrophic security failures that have persisted under Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir's command. Rather than address these failures honestly, the military fell back on...